PC PowerPlay Magazine

The truth behind Gigabyte’s controversial X79-UD3/5 and Assassin 2 motherboards.

ASUS’ uber cool Rampage IV Extreme has struck another blow in the war for faster memory speeds 2700MHz. Show casing its support for faster memory speeds and stabler overclocking, the Rampage IV Extreme has also gone a long way in demonstrating how far RAM speeds can be pushed on the new Intel® X79 platform.

Following the launch of their X79-based motherboards, ASUS has bagged another accolade with their first Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) certified Socket LGA 2011 board – the P9X79 DELUXE. The board features a whopping 2400MHz RAM. The ROG Rampage IV Extreme also boasts the current X79 RAM speed record at 2700MHz.

On the 31st of June AMD invited the Guiness World Record team over to their house for a little LN2 overclocking.

Dino Strkljevic from Gigabyte has released an overclocking guide for AMDs new FM1 socket and more importantly Gigabyte’s A55 and A75 motherboards.

If you thought the platform was incapable of some serious benchmark scores, thing again, as Dino proves this platform has plenty more to give!

Gigabyte have officially announced 22nm (Ivy Bridge) support for their 1155 socket motherboards.

Want to overclock with the best of them? Well, Australia is home to some of the best overclockers in the world, and they’re coming to Sydney for an exclusive PCPP overclocking workshop – and you could be there, too!

The Thermaltake Black feels like a gaming mouse when you grip it, and it is ambidextrous in design, meaning you lefties in the audience have not been forgotten.

Using Apple’s AirPlay allows these B&W speakers to steam music wirelessly in addition to providing the usual iPod docking functionality.

There’s always that one work colleague you’d love to go all Rambo on, sight down the shaft of an explosive-tipped arrow and let fly. The problem with that is the whole “illegal” thing. Well Zing’s answer to that issue has been the Z-Curve bow, effectively a fancy slingshot that fires foam missiles. POWERED UP: We [...]